I think this is a very hard choice. But the price—we think—the price is worth it.
(Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration, upon being told that a half million civilians had died as a result of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq)
As we appear to be running up to a new war, perhaps it would be useful to look at the run-up to the last one.
“They hate us for our freedoms,” was a…